Tried to equip a melee weapon into my BO hands and while i was able to do so the BO did nothing. Yes his specials seemed to go off or work but he did not fight anything. I am not sure if this is a bug or if this has been reported but it just seems odd.

Lt. Cmdr, Male, Klingon, BO - specials fired IE focus fire but did not enter combat even at close range.

Tried to equip a melee weapon into my BO hands and while i was able to do so the BO did nothing. Yes his specials seemed to go off or work but he did not fight anything. I am not sure if this is a bug or if this has been reported but it just seems odd.

Lt. Cmdr, Male, Klingon, BO - specials fired IE focus fire but did not enter combat even at close range.

Yeah its Broken. I relized that after pumping my Klingon BO up with melee skills and equiping him with Batt'Leth.
What a downer...

got my entire team of bo's equipped with bat'leths..... they still cowered and did nothing... i of course, only realised this when charging into a huge crowd of several swordmasters, officers and targ handlers...

switched them back to weapons, and they actually still behaved the same way... so got slaughtered again as i was the only one killing things...